gamesmeister
Banded Mongoose
Rurik said:In earlier RQ anyone could learn these spells if they had a teacher and cash, and casting was always at POWx5 rather than a skill.
The pedant in me says I should point out that RQ2 Battle Magic (i.e. the equivalent of MRQ Rune Magic) was successfully cast on anything except 96-00, and Divine Magic (then called Rune Magic) never failed.
Progressive spells were handled differently back in previous versions too - you had to learn Bladesharp 1 before you could learn Bladesharp 2, then 2 before 3, and so on. Personally I think this made more sense than the current version, although I'm not planning to houserule it.